Your First Bike.... Images?

Hey all,

Well going through some photos I came across these beauties... :laugh:

My first (among many) POS bikes but it was all mine. Home made Suzuki 90... Seriously, I learned a lot about wrenching with this sweetheart.

Lower, image ~ 15 years ago... First Wife left, buy a bike!
Yamaha IT 250... This bike Rocked!

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My first bike was a British built 1950 Francis-Barnett with a 2 stroke 197cc Villiers engine. Payed $50, hauled it into the basement where I rebuilt the engine and painted it, then shipped it to Quebec where I rode it throughout a summer and sold it for $125. I was single and just about as skinny as the guy shown in the ad :laugh:

Is this the bike?
Sweet, bet you wish you still had it...

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yamaha dt250 i bought it, kept it at a friend's house for a couple of months then sprang the news on mom and pop, who were not real happy with the news. think i had to ask them for some money to fix the rings flying out the exhaust.

I started on a '72 CB125S.
Rode her for a few years. Had her up to an indicated 80 mph down hill once!

Had her up to an indicated 80 mph down hill once

...hahahahaha

My neighbor had one of these, let me borrow once (only), went moto-crossing with it. He wasn't happy with me.... :laugh:

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Bought brand new for $865

gnfreak wrote:

yamaha dt250 i bought it, kept it at a friend's house for a couple of months then sprang the news on mom and pop, who were not real happy with the news. think i had to ask them for some money to fix the rings flying out the exhaust.

i had one of those but it was yellow

i had a couple other dirtbikes before i had one of these,but this is like the one i was riding before i got my basket case z1 when i was a kid.mine was heavily breathed on by the local hodaka guy before i got with lots of motor work a big freaking mikuni and handmade expansion chamber coming out other side,oh yeah mine had a blue frame and orange plastic fenders.B)oopsies no picture!:blush:

had one of these also with big ol knobby back tire and no front fender for beating at the river bottem,till i smoked trans :laugh:

had one of these also with a 12" over swingarm for hill climbing,that damn thing as ungodly!:laugh:

Oh off road! I had a Wombat and a Yammie 500TT. Also a Ossa Pioneer. A few months ago I walked into a motorcycle repair shop and there was a cherry and I do mean cherry like brand new Wombat sitting on the floor. It wasn't for sale. I asked.

The Yam500 was nutz! The Ossa just ran and ran. Great engine!
Many Years later......
First real road bike was a Honda360T I found apart in a garbage pick up. I asked the guy if I could take it and he gave me the old registration. My brother helped me put it back together and I ran it for a year. Sold it to a kid and not long after saw it in the metal recycling container at the local landfill.